The Blue Spirit putting out firebending with a bucket of water is the absolute funniest thing ever done in avatar combat. It just is.
Imagine after the war it comes out that Firelord Zuko was the Blue Spirit and you, a random former Pouhai Stronghold guard, have the sudden shocked realization that you were once taken out by the teenage future Firelord with nothing but a bucket and a metric ton of stubborn moxie
How to destress a firelord: play with his hair 😇
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A quick drawing warm-up and tribute to my favourite cartoon series, Avatar the Last Airbender. This series is one of the major reasons I decided to pursue animation, ( and it always inspires me when I’m at a low or have an art block)!
Keep making magical stories and artwork, Bryan & Mike ( plus the avatar team). You guys rock~
Let’s settle this. Just you and me, brother. The showdown that was always meant to be. Agni Kai!
Honestly finding out Mark Hamill, luke sykwalker himself, voiced firelord ozai in atla is a fucking trip
People really underestimate this relationship and favor Katara’s grief over Aang so much that we never really get to see fan art of her and her brother. Ultimately, I feel like Sokka’s death had the potential to hurt her the most - especially if we consider that Aang could have died before him, and he was all she really had left. But that’s all speculative.
[Also, do not remove my artist comments/source and/or watermark. You will be reported, otherwise. Thanks!] @DeviantArt [x]
Can you guys reblog this one instead, cos it has my WM on it and also it’s on the new acct. thank.
So you’ve got this typical story about an average kid right? Only, surprise surprise, he actually turns out to be more than average. See, one day, when he was just minding his own business, he’s suddenly told that he is this super-being who has to save the world from evil. Again, it’s your basic tropes all lined up and ready to go.
Only here’s the thing.
The kid?
He runs away.
And this isn’t just a “Oh, I need some time to think but I’ll come around in a day or two and fulfill my destiny.”
No this kid is gone. For the first time in his life, this kind and generous kid makes a selfish decision. He knows what the consequences are. He knows what’s at stake. He knows that lives are going to be in danger. And he still chooses to run away.
Things take an abrupt turn when he gets into an accident and he ends up in a coma. He wakes up years later and guess what? Him running away from his duties that day? Yeah it kind of caused the entire world to be plunged into chaos. This kid, this kid, is now responsible for thousands upon thousands of deaths.
At the age of twelve, this kind pacifist single-handedly becomes a mass-murderer by association. All because he ran away.
A few older teenagers find him and immediately help him. They don’t think much of it. They’re used to helping out anyone they can. After all, the war has killed people they love, family, friends. So they help this kid before they even realize that he’s destined. And this kid, this kid isn’t even fully aware of just how many people he inadvertently killed.
Until they go to the ‘city’ where he was from. He doesn’t understand why they’re so worried but when he gets there…he gets it. There is no ‘city’. Not anymore. It’s abandoned ruins lined with skeletons—his friends, his family. He finds his father’s corpse. He finds signs of a struggle. Everyone he knew is dead. And there are so many more. Hundreds. Thousands. All dead. All because of him.
He’s a good kid, a great kid. He wouldn’t hurt a fly.
And he led to thousands of deaths.
All because he ran away.
And this entire story is just the first three episodes of Avatar: The Last Airbender. (Four if you count borrowing some information from The Storm.)
Avatar showed all of this in just three episodes. Actually it showed this and more. Because this is just one character’s story and they introduced us to half a dozen major characters, each with stories just as, if not even more, tragic than this one.
Long story short, we always talk about how amazing Avatar is for the representation and art and animation and music and morals but we rarely ever talk about how amazing the story is. The horrible irony that Aang, a pacifistic monk who was kind and generous to everyone he met, inadvertently led to thousands of people dying in a century-long war—it’s one of the greatest stories that I’ve ever heard of. This doesn’t even include all of the other consequences we see throughout the series—villages being destroyed, families living in fear, people being dragged off to concentration camps in the middle of the night, kids turning into terrorists, refugees being forced to walk thousands of miles to get to a safe haven, the injuries, the fear, the trauma. (And this is all just in Book One. Don’t even get me started on the other two.) It’s hard to say that it’s all Aang’s fault but his disappearance certainly had a huge impact on the horrible things that occurred.
And the worst part is?
He knew.
It took Katara about .532 seconds to take zuko down
“Here for a rematch?” HE ASKED THE WATERBENDER WHILE STANDING ON A GLACIER ISLAND SURROUNDED BY WATER
lmao
My favorite part is that piddly little flame he fires out like pwew.
Because I’ve been getting a tonne of asks and messages, I’m putting out the final version I did for SMASH!2016.
OUT WITH THE CONFUSING YELLOW/ORANGE STRIPES, IN WITH SOKKA’S WARPAINT AND KATARA’S NECKLACE.
Can be used for avatars! Street creds appreciated :))
A fun reminder that Aang was a terrifyingly powerful Avatar.
Most Avatars are informed of their newfound destinies at the age of 16 to begin their training. Because of the approaching war Aang was told of his status at the age of 12. He had already mastered airbending, and in the span of a year he mastered the other three elements, the avatar state, and energybending. He also learned lightning redirection and seismic sense (a technique no previous Avatar had even encountered). In the span of a year.
This child was a terrifying force of nature.
Sokka voice: “I NEVER SAID HE WAS dEAD, I SAID IT WAS UNCLEAR”
I can dream ok
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unm BLESS THE GRANDCHILDREN OF WHOMEVER MADE THIS
This is great! Kind of sums up Avatar perfectly. Forgiveness and compassion are powerful things.
A fun reminder that Aang was a terrifyingly powerful Avatar.
Most Avatars are informed of their newfound destinies at the age of 16 to begin their training. Because of the approaching war Aang was told of his status at the age of 12. He had already mastered airbending, and in the span of a year he mastered the other three elements, the avatar state, and energybending. He also learned lightning redirection and seismic sense (a technique no previous Avatar had even encountered). In the span of a year.
This child was a terrifying force of nature.
I want to add two things.
1. 12 Years old was the youngest anyone has ever mastered Airbending.
2. It actually only took him about 9 months to master the rest, since each book takes place over 1 season(3 months)
I don’t know why I expected that to end any differently.
